Front End Center — Why Latency Matters: Foundations of Web Performance

Depending on where you live and the devices you use, high-latency internet access might be a totally foreign concept or an everyday reality, so in this episode we look at some concrete numbers to get a sense of just how much it can change someone’s experience. We’ll also look at the TCP design decisions that cause connections to “slow start“ & why that makes it worth considering adding a CDN to your site architecture right at the beginning of a project.